In this month's newsletter, we talk about Home Assistant and OHF collaboration partner Zigbee2MQTT both getting top spots on GitHub's 2024 wrap-up, and steps we're taking to improve the Foundation! 🙌🏻

Read on 👇🏼
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We are number one

Welcome to the October edition of the Open Home Foundation newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and sustainability.

^{Paulus Schoutsen (Building the Open Home)}

🗣️ We're working to improve our wake word engine which "wakes" a device to listen for more commands. We'd love if you could spare a minute and lend your voice to help with our community-driven, privacy-focused voice assistant!

Read on 👇🏼 to learn how you can help:
home-assistant.io/blog/2024/10…

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Help us make voice better in under a minute

We’ve built a tool to allow you to help us make local and private voice better for all languages.

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📢 We're searching for researchers and academics who are using Open Home technologies in projects or studies to learn about your work!

Check out Annika's post 👇🏼 on LinkedIn for more details. We look forward to connecting with you! linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…

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🌟 Calling All Researchers and Academics! 📚 🔍 We know that the open-source projects of the Open Home Foundation are being used in exciting ways across…

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🗣️ September 30th is #InternationalTranslationDay, and we want to celebrate the Language Leaders. They are helping us build an open-source, privacy-focused voice assistant that anyone can run.

Thanks to all your hard work helping us over the Year of Voice and beyond! 🍻🙏🏻

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The September newsletter is out and this month we celebrated @homeassistant's 11th anniversary! The project continues to age like fine wine with the community helping us move the Open Home forward.

Read on to learn about events we attended and more: 👇🏼 newsletter.openhomefoundation.…

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Home Assistant turns 11 years old

Welcome to the September edition of the Open Home Foundation newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and sustainability.

^{Paulus Schoutsen (Building the Open Home)}

We are excited to announce Aqara is joining Works With Home Assistant! The first partner to join since our recent update to the program, they started with certifying Matter devices.

Read on to see what products they initially certified: 👇🏼
home-assistant.io/blog/2024/09…

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Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

We have certified 4 Aqara devices, all of which are the first to use our Works via Matter with Home Assistant badge.

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